Series | Book
Encouraging openness
essays for Joseph Agassi on the occasion of his 90th birthday
Abstract
This volume features forty-two essays written in honor of Joseph Agassi. It explores the work and legacy of this influential philosopher, an exciting and challenging advocate of critical rationalism. Throughout six decades of stupendous intellectual activity, Agassi called attention to rationality as the very starting point of every notable philosophical way of life.The essays present Agassi’s own views on critical rationalism. They also develop and expand upon his work in new and provocative ways. The authors include Agassi's most notable pupils, friends, and colleagues. Overall, their contributions challenge the received view on a variety of issues concerning science, religion, and education.Readers will find well-reasoned arguments on such topics as the secular problem of evil, religion and critical thinking, liberal democratic educational communities, democracy and constitutionalism, and capitalism at a crossroad.
Details | Table of Contents
an overlooked topic for critical rationalists
pp.53-67
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_6why and how
pp.71-79
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_7pp.81-90
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_8pp.91-103
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_9pp.105-111
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_10pp.113-127
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_11pp.129-142
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_12biosocial and biomedical reflections
pp.143-164
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_13the end of a two millennia paradigm?
pp.167-190
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_14rereading Agassi on Koestler on Galileo
pp.191-206
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_15understanding the history of ideas
pp.207-214
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_16pp.221-233
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_18a time-symmetric nonlocal ontology for quantum mechanics
pp.235-239
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_19a footnote to the siblinghood of humanity
pp.243-249
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_20toward a multifaceted approach to peacemaking in the Israeli-palestinian struggle
pp.263-286
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_22pp.287-290
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_23pp.291-300
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_24pp.305-318
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_26the only buffer against fascism and fundamentalism
pp.319-332
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_27political, sociological, historical, and psychological aspects of civil responsibility
pp.333-348
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_28pp.417-427
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_33pp.455-466
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_36pp.467-489
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_37a lesson in etiquette from professor Agassi
pp.543-545
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57669-5_41Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2017
Pages: 584
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
Series volume: 325
ISBN (hardback): 978-3-319-57668-8
ISBN (digital): 978-3-319-57669-5
Full citation:
Bar Am Nimrod, Gattei Stefano (2017) Encouraging openness: essays for Joseph Agassi on the occasion of his 90th birthday. Dordrecht, Springer.